As you progress through the gamebook, you’ll gather items, discover resources, command improvements to your fortress, and prepare it against a vast army. The enhancements you make can grant you powerful boons, equipment and unlock new adventures. Your fortress can also lead to different endings, depending on your foes, alliances and choices.

Holdfast upgrades include walls and defensive weapons, such as traps, economic and crafting buildings, such as inns and forges, and personnel, including your personal guard. You can choose to go it alone, too, and dwarven history is filled with desperate last stands, ending in legendary, but inevitable, sacrifices…